Fried Green Tomatoes – the restaurant

The first place we visited upon arrival in the Milwaukee area for the weekend was the Miller Valley. We took the Miller Brewing plant tour. It was about an hour long and was free. The tour starts in the visitor center with a short video followed by a walking tour outside, then in and out…

Here’s the gang (MoBlog pic posted) at Starved Rock State Park near Utica, IL. We hiked this morning.  We didn’t hike all the trails but we did visit Starved Rock, Lover’s Leap Overlook, EaglecCliff Overlook, French Canyon, the Visitor Center and the Lodge.  We also had a picnic lunch in the park between the river…

We are in Kentucky, camping at the Kentucky Horse Park. Our friends arranged a tour for us of several area horse farms. One of the farms we visted was Winstar Farms. This farm has several top-shelf stud horses. I don’t recall his name, but the horse pictured has a stud fee of $145,000. That puts…

This Labor Day weekend, Nancy and I camped near East Troy, WI at Camp Timber-lee.  We camped with 150-200 people from our church.  It's Saturday evening as I type this.  We've had a great time already.  Most everyone breaks camp and heads home Sunday after lunch.  We are staying until Monday.  Here's a few pictures…